GOLF VIDEOS OF THE WEEK (6/4)

Nature is unrelenting and one of the consequences of golf courses going out of business is that nature and wildlife find a way back in and it isn't always pretty. The reference is from
Jurassic Park and of course best mumbled by Jeff Goldblum.

This couldn't have been more evident with last week's Internet sensation taking over what appears to be an abandoned golf course. Whether it is scary dinosaurs, wild horsies or some bizarre
genetic mutation of both, the history of evolution has taught us that life finds a way.

[Aside: for the life of me, I haven't been able to figure out the course although at one point in the video, the hole marker for the first hole is named "Pines" (either the hole name or the name
of that particular 9 or 18 holes) and yardages 355 from the blues and 331 from the reds. It should be in the Fort Lauderdale area. If you know the course, please
let me know].

Of course anyone who drank in the 90s or 00s knows the original great video golf game: Golden Tee (which with the advent of YouTube now shows one of the great double-eagles based on viewer count ... umm, maybe in hindsight I don't miss drinking in bars playing Golden Tee). But this week I discovered a precursor.

This video that appeared this week as part of an attempt to sell this game. Now this is a game that should come back to drinking establishments because it seems made for drinking.

There's a longer YouTube video about the game in general in which the narrator provides some history of the game. It was apparently was
built in 1964 and very popular (while other accounts suggest not too many of this original version were made). The history is neat because it was apparently engineered by Harry Williams who
originally founded the famous arcade business Williams Manufacturing Company (who of course made the great Pin*Bot - the last great pinball machine I recall before allegedly becoming an adult).
Williams also devised the "tilt" feature - a term that has just become part of Pat Perez's and the English vernacular.

Disney typically doesn't just hand this stuff out so maybe it coincides with the U.S. Open. There is a version of Mickey playing golf in
Spanish on YouTube for now but is likely not authorized. Not to sound old-fashioned and always waxing nostalgic (it may be too late), but it seems golf used to be a much bigger part of
cartoons several decades ago. We featured Fred Flintstone a couple of weeks back and he is certainly still missed today - as proven at last year's U.S. Open.

Hey, it's infinitely better than "you da man" or "get in the hole."

US OPEN APPETIZER

Speaking of the U.S. Open, here's the USGA's promo video released last week for the U.S. Open that includes a nice teaser about the history of Merion. An interesting tidbit is that Merion has
hosted more USGA Championship events than any other course.

Of course the real appetizer and main from a food standpoint will come later this week with TheTeeSheet's Clubhouse Kitchen special for the U.S. Open.